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Agree with these, but in my opinion, the date selector wheels in iOS are a terrible design. Three rolling wheels just doesn't map to most people's concept of a
by johnnyo 11y ago
Agree with these, but in my opinion, the date selector wheels in iOS are a terrible design. Three rolling wheels just doesn't map to most people's concept of a calendar
- Mandatum 11y agoDo you have a better example? I don't find the select diag's like in Desktop Chrome easier to use especially on a mobile. I think what they've done is better than anything else I've seen. With enough following it'd become the norm like anything else.
- themartorana 11y agoI actually wanted to state the same thing the GP did - the date selector is terribad. It was much better before "The Flattening" in iOS 7. IMHO. I find sometimes I have difficulty understanding where the bounds of the control actually are. That's not good design, and it seems far from obvious.
- bananaboy 11y agoYeah I agree, the date and time selector was MUCH better before the flattening!
- ilovecomputers 11y agoCultured Code's date picker for Things has been my favorite: http://culturedcode.cachefly.net/things/videos/things-iphone-scrolling-datepicker-20120809/video.m4v http://culturedcode.cachefly.net/things/videos/things-iphone...
- kayman 11y agoI used gldate picker. http://glad.github.io/glDatePicker/ http://glad.github.io/glDatePicker/ I find it's familiarity calendar display coupled with iphone friendly format strikes a good balance.
- afro88 11y agoHow do I choose a date that's 30 odd years ago - a birthdate for example.
- kaolinite 11y agoYou wouldn't want to do that in Things (it's a todo app) - you're most likely not going past next month, at the most. You're right though - this wouldn't be a good replacement calendar picker for every app.
- juriansluiman 11y agoAndroid has a simple calendar which you can swipe to change the month. Click on the year and a year selection is shown. The time is a clock where you're able to select the hour first and minutes thereafter. This is the most intuitive mobile touch interface I have seen so far, any other is really small, awkward or not mentally easy to comprehend. Image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiTuX/datetimepicker/master/demo/screens/dateTimePicker.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiTuX/datetimepicker/maste...
- k-mcgrady 11y ago>> "The time is a clock where you're able to select the hour first and minutes thereafter. This is the most intuitive mobile touch interface I have seen so far, any other is really small, awkward or not mentally easy to comprehend." Really? This is incredibly unintuitive in my opinion. That clock was my biggest annoyance with Android and I always selected the wrong time first go round.
- juriansluiman 11y agoI just see it as pointing where I'd like the hands of a clock. The only learning curve I had is the difference between 10:00 and 22:00 (or likewise, between AM and PM).
- jonahx 11y agoAgree. I would rather try my luck tapping a too-small calendar date as pictured on the right. I'll often get it right the first time, but even accounting for the extra time of an error and a retry (2 extra taps) it will still be faster and less frustrating than setting 4 separate scroll wheels.
- beloch 11y agoThis is a great example of when it's more important to stick with a familiar interface (i.e. the calendar) than to go with something that is "designed for touch".
- BillinghamJ 11y agoI would wholeheartedly disagree - I think this is a great example of where you should break from common desktop norms and provide something which is easier for a big stubby thumb to use.
- vbezhenar 11y agoWhat I absolutely hate is minute picker. 60 items is just too much to scroll. For most usages 5 minutes step is enough and 12 items much better. As for calendar, I never had any problems with it. Of course it's not standard way that most people get used to, but I think any person will understand what to do.
- Y-bar 11y ago100% in agreement with you. I can't remember the last time I needed to add a time with more granularity than 5 minutes. And the iOS date picker actually [does allow for custom granularity](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIDatePicker_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIDatePicker/minuteInterval https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...) up to 30 minutes. But I guess there is no easy way to accommodate for both those that do need 1-minute intervals and those who would rather have 5-minute intervals (without adding yet another UI element or yet another setting to toggle).
- b15h0p 11y agoA double tap on the minute picker switches between 1- and 5-minute increments, afaik.
- kagamine 11y agoThat's a perfect example of "Apple thought of everything" except how well that feature is hidden from the user. I mean, who was the first person to discover that? And I'll bet money it was by accident.
- tacone 11y agoTo get simplicity sometimes you have to remove features, sometimes there's no way around it. When you face the choice, to hide a feature instead of removing it altogether can be a good compromise. So it can be still discovered casually, it can spread by the word of mouth, blog posts, and of course the user manual. When selecting text, would you, for example, put select-word/select-line buttons everywhere a text can be selected or just let people discover what triple click does? The topic is debatable, I just wanted to say that this kind of choice does make sense to me, and probably many others.
- k-mcgrady 11y agoPersonally I love them. I hate when apps put in their own calendar control. It's always more time consuming to get where I want whereas with the wheel I can quickly spin it to move to where I want quickly.